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Date:      Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:50:41 +0900
From:      JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
To:        "Konstantin KABASSANOV" <Konstantin.Kabassanov@lip6.fr>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: the correct ipv6 behavior for interfaces with gif tunnel on them
Message-ID:  <y7v1xdyhnni.wl@ocean.jinmei.org>
In-Reply-To: <002601c4de18$02b64ea0$8748e384@ipv6.lip6.fr>
References:  <y7vu0qwgji0.wl@ocean.jinmei.org> <002601c4de18$02b64ea0$8748e384@ipv6.lip6.fr>

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>>>>> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 18:53:37 +0100, 
>>>>> "Konstantin KABASSANOV" <Konstantin.Kabassanov@lip6.fr> said:

>> Please provide more detailed network configuration.  Are you talking
>> about a router box forwarding packets onto gif and physical
>> interfaces?

> Well, this is a router box with 2 physical interfaces (say xl0 and rl0).
> Rl0 has a gif tunnel (gif0) over it. Xl0,rl0 and gif0 announce in their
> ifconfig an MTU of 1500, but 1300 bytes traffic generated from this box
> and sent through the gif0 interface is fragmented by the rl0 interface to
> 1280 bytes...
 
>   Please also specify the OS name (which I guess is
>> FreeBSD) and its version.

> FreeBSD 4.7 (yes it is a little bit old, but I think the problem still
> persist in more recent versions)... And that's why I'm asking if this
> behavior is normal or not...

This is not the intended behavior, and seems to be fixed at least on
FreeBSD 5.3.  I don't know whether the change is merged into 4.x.  At
least it's not the case with FreeBSD 4.10.

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp



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